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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo DANIEL H. JENNINGS AND WILLIAM H. ALLEN, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,526, dated January 17, 1888.

Application lled July .19, 1887. Serial No. 244,657. (No mode.)

' To all whom iam/(Ly concern:

Be it known that we, DANIEL H. J ENNINGs and WILLIAM H. ALLEN, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Arapahoe and State ot Oolorado,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stirrnp-Pads; and we do declare the following to the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,aud to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to stirrup-pads.

. The object of our invention is to provide a pad for the footpiece of a stirrnp which may be easily attached or detached, and which will be firmly held in place when attached.l

The further object of our invention is to provide a cushion or pad for a stirrnp which will be easy for the feet of the rider.v

We accomplish these objects by the mechanism illustrated in thc accompanying draw ings, in which- Figure l is a side view of a stirrup with our device attached, partly in section. Fig. 2isa top View ot' astirrup with our device attached, partially in section.

Similar letters refer tosimilar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A designates the pad,which is composed ofthe foot-receiving portion a, having flanges b at its edges. ln these iianges' there is embedded or secured a metallic strip, c. This metallic strip e has suitable holes, through which screws or other fastening devices dare passed into the stirrup B.

In Bro wers pad the fasteningstrips are cast y transversely in the pad, or so that whenthe stirrup is in use they are interposed between the foot and the bottom of the stirrup proper. This construction is objectionable because the abrasive action ofthe foot against the pad tends to wear through rapidly to the fastening-strips, and, moreover, the value of the rubber as a pad is impaired by having the metallic strips embedded in it at the place where the foot rests.

The objections j ust stated are overcome by our pad. The pad may be worn almost entirely through without its value asa pad being empaired. Moreover, the metallic fasteningstrips in our pad will hold every portion of the exposed edges of the pad rmly against the stirrup.

The herein-describedimproved stirrup-pad, Y

DANIEL H. JENNINGs. WILLIAM HALLEN.

Witnesses:

J. K. FLEMING, B.'L. PoLLooK. 

